Introduction

Joe and Jackie Mancini are MBA students at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Joe is a second-year and Jackie is a first-year. "We're still in negotiations with Associate Dean Russ Morgan on a two-for-one tuition deal," Jackie says. They live in an apartment just off campus. Joe and Jackie met at a leadership conference during their senior year of high school and were married seven years later. At Fuqua, Joe has been the communications chair of the MBA Association and an admissions fellow. After graduation, he will return to consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers with a long-term goal of starting his own company. Jackie is a COLE (Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics) fellow and an admissions Fellow. She will be doing a health-care internship in Chicago this summer and plans to stay in health care upon graduation next year.